The situation is nice and simple. There is no worrying about tiebreaker points or what another team is doing.

Bishop Canevin plays at South Fayette at 7:30 tomorrow night in a Class AA Century Conference contest. If the Crusaders win, they advance to the WPIAL playoffs. If they lose, they probably won't make it.

"There won't be any scoreboard watching," Bishop Canevin coach Bob Jacoby said. "All we have to do is win."

Canevin is tied with Quaker Valley for fourth place in the conference. Both have 4-4 overall and conference records and both started the season 1-3.

Quaker Valley plays at Cornell (1-7) tomorrow night and there is a possibility of a four-way tie for the conference's final playoff berth if Cornell pulls an upset, South Fayette beats Canevin and Steel Valley beats visiting South Park. If all of that happens, Canevin, Quaker Valley, Steel Valley and South Fayette would end up tied at 4-5.

Canevin can keep that from happening by just winning and there is no reason to think the Crusaders can't get the job done. After all, they have won two consecutive games.

"We've been in a [lose] one and done situation the past two weeks," Jacoby said. "Really, if you look at our scores, we've played well all year. Even in the games we've lost, we've been competitive."

And Jacoby said it hasn't been one or two players who have made the difference lately. "It's been pretty much a team effort that has given us this opportunity," he said.

Hats off to Cornell, which has decided to play a 10th game.

Teams that don't qualify for the WPIAL postseason have the option of playing a 10th game against another school in the same situation. It used to be that most teams took advantage of the opportunity and played a 10th contest, but not anymore.

Cornell, 1-7 going into this weekend, will entertain Shenango (3-5) at 6 p.m. a week from today at Frank Letteri Stadium in Coraopolis.

The Raiders, by the way, are the smallest public school in enrollment in Allegheny County. They play a Class AA schedule because the school has a cooperative agreement for football with Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, so the schools two male enrollments are combined to decide Cornell's classification.

But OLSH is in the process of adding football for the 2010 season, so the co-op agreement between the schools will dissolve. That will put Cornell in Class A for the 2010 season.

Where will they go?

Speaking of cooperative agreements for football, it will be interesting to see what happens with Quigley Catholic students who want to play the sport after next season.

Monaca and Quigley have a co-op for football, which works well because the combined enrollment of the two schools isn't large enough to pump Monaca into Class AA. But with the merger of the Monaca and Center school districts, Quigley might have to work out a deal with another district for the 2010 season.

The final score was impressive: Fort Cherry 71, Frazier 38. Fort Cherry coach Tim Garry hopes he is never involved in a game like that again.

First of all, Garry wasn't thrilled with the Rangers scoring 71 points. He said Frazier coach Lew Sweitzer was upset with him after the Class A Black Hills Conference contest Oct. 11, but Garry was caught in an awkward situation.

"It was crazy. I didn't want to score 71 points, but we gave up 38," he said. "We just couldn't stop Frazier ... and there were no sustained drives.

"I looked at my watch at one point and I'm thinking, 'Man, this is really a long game.' But we just couldn't put together a sustained drive. Everything was just a big play."

Fort Cherry held a 36-24 lead at the half and hardly had the contest salted away. Garry pointed out that the Rangers did not throw a pass in the final two quarters.

"Neither one of us were using a hurry-up offense. We were huddling and taking our time. It was just that it was taking us only a couple plays to score," Garry said. "We just couldn't stop them.

"What happened is that we had five kids at different positions on defense. We did some experimenting which, obviously, didn't work."

There are plenty of games worth the price of admission this weekend, starting with the Langley (4-4, 4-3) vs. Perry (7-1, 6-1) City League contest at 6 tonight at Cupples Stadium. Langley is tied with Carrick for the fourth and final playoff spot in the league.

Tomorrow night the spotlight shifts to West Allegheny (6-2, 3-2) at Montour (4-4, 2-3) in the Class AAA Parkway Conference, Center (6-2, 5-2) visits Beaver (7-1, 6-1) in the Class AA Midwestern Athletic Conference, Brentwood (3-5, 3-3) is at Carlynton (3-5, 2-4) in the Class A Eastern Conference and Rochester (8-0, 6-0) is at Monaca (7-1, 5-1) in the Class A Big Seven. At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Western Beaver (6-2, 5-1) is at South Side Beaver (5-3, 3-3) in the Big Seven.

All of the games have playoff implications or are for a conference championships.